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Re:U.S. sues Oracle, alleges salary and hiring discrimination by cmdrfred on Wednesday January 18, 2017 @07:10PM (#13431754)
"We can't hire any more black people, we have too many as is, if your white friend was to apply we would hire him in a heartbeat we have trouble getting enough of those"

Seems pretty discriminatory to me.

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Re:U.S. sues Oracle, alleges salary and hiring discrimination by usrusr on Thursday January 19, 2017 @08:22AM (#13435530)
Or worse yet: "Sorry, a group of our employees recently went back to Mexico to start their own business there, we can only hire Hispanic for the foreseeable future."

Bonus question: should the HR department be allowed to ask for ethnicity ahead of time or would noneligible applicants have to sacrifice precious time in futile interviews?

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